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16 March 2005

I’m an active mobile Internet user. I get on the Internet whenever I had a chance. My primary tool of hooking up to the net is my trusty SonyEricsson P900 and its Opera web browser. Opera is a versatile web browser, even so when on the road.

The single most important feature of Opera for Mobile is its Small Screen Rendering. It reformat any web page to fit inside the screen width to eliminate the annoying horizontal scrolling. It does the job very well on almost any web site. Of course, there are some exception to this. There are highly broken web sites which are incomprehensible in SSR mode. For these broken sites, Opera also provides normal rendering mode which render web sites the same way we see on computer screen.

SSR mode works great with this web site. In fact, some postings are published using Opera under SSR mode, just to show that the complex WordPress admin screen is easily handled by Opera SSR mode.

The problem with SSR is that any formatting done by CSS is lost. All blogs practically look the same to each other. Fortunately, it is not hard for developers to provide a customized CSS for use with handheld devices.